Iowa Weather Flips From Heat to Cold Astonishing Iowa
A dramatic weather swing in Iowa saw temperatures jump fifty to sixty degrees in ten to twelve hours. The piece notes widespread discomfort from rapid shifts, with vivid imagery of moving from summer to winter. It recounts Texas cattle arriving at Rock Island stock yards facing abrupt cold, likening their misery to humans exposed to drastic changes.
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Iowa
Texas
Rock Island
Rene Warner
Busy McCleery Calendar Factory Drives Year’s End Rush
In a village, McCleery Calendar Factory hustles to complete a year’s work in weeks. Hugh H. leads a crew of about thirty to forty, including girls and men, producing original designs and tinted half tone art. The firm ships across the United States and to Canada, Mexico, and Cuba, in a well lit, well ventilated building built for rapid production.
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MccCleery
Hugh H
McCleery & Son
McCleery
United States
Canada
Mexico
Cuba
What Are You Doing With Your Life
A communication stresses the brevity of earthly life and the need to account to God for one’s deeds. It warns life is short and vanishes quickly, urging reflection on how life is spent and the afterlife consequences.
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Purina
Life as the season to serve the Lord and do good
The excerpt urges readers to use the present life to prepare for eternity and to sow and reap righteously. It emphasizes now is the time for salvation and deeds, citing the Savior who said to do the works of Him that sent me while it is day, and mentions Mrs Mina Putnam.
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Mina Putnam
Europe Can End Tariff Need By Raising Wages Says National Republic
The National Republic argues Europe can drop the American protective tariff by improving workers wages and living standards. It says a wage rise would enable free trade or revenue tariffs, expand foreign market absorption, and reduce ill will toward the United States. It cautions against European demagogy and notes possible tariff increases or an embargo as steps to prove the point.
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Europe
National Republic
United States
America
Banking house offers to cover $800000 bond loss
Hayden, Stone & Co. pledges to reimburse investors who lost $800,000 on Supreme Coal Company debentures. The move, described by the Buffalo Courier-Express as a historic first, signals a new spirit in business to serve customers before self.
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Supreme Coal Company
Hayden, Stone & Co
Dispatch
New York
Buffalo Courier-Express
A Child's Plea by Helen Hoopes
A child reflects on winter hardship as the sky remains gray and food scarce. She suggests feeding birds and squirrels with nuts suet and crumbs to honor Christmas through giving, linking the act to a lesson from Christ about generosity.
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Helen Hoopes
Christ
Fragmented Wordplay and Proverbs Across Newspapers
A collage of quips and cartoons from Wesleyan Wasp London Humor Hardware Age Boston Transcript and Lincoln Wilson highlights with jokes about parenting marriage and civic ideals. It stitches witty lines on daily life and the value of free institutions into a single quirky snapshot.
Scarcity of Cars Darkens Washington Mornings
The writer notes few vehicles on Washington streets during cold mornings. Cars fail to start, requiring priming like buckwheat cakes and coffee. The scene feels odd for rush hour and evokes memories of the era before cars.
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Washington
Professor and Doctor Exchange on Sleep Talking Exchange
A humorous exchange unfolds as a professor confesses to sleep talking about others while a doctor probes. The prospect deems Ananias as a writer of resort literature, hinting at a sly life lived through fictional travel writing.
On with the dance says humorous quip about cigars and marching
A playful exchange contrasts dancing and marching with a jab about cigar lighters. The dialogue notes a humorous discrepancy between expectations and reality, reflecting light social wit.
A Life on the Ocean Wall Lined by Sailor Humor
A voyage aboard a great liner yields light nautical quips and jokes about marriage seasickness and a shell narrowly missing a sparrow. The writer predicts skirts vanish in a decade as fashion jokes mingle with shipboard chatter and a risqué verse about garters is recited.
Wildwood Lake outing correction over chaperon mixup
A Washburn Leader item corrects a previous misprint about Miss Slara Sauer and companions camping at Wildwood Lake over the Fourth with Mrs Sverdrup Sheldon as chaperon. The paper clarifies it was Mrs Sheldon who enjoyed the outing and apologizes for the typewriter error claiming the machine dropped several letters.
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Slara Sauer
Pearl Shearer
Beulah Jettson
Golda Burns
Sverdrup Sheldon
Wildwood Lake
Sheldon
Witty Exchange Across Shore Leave In Civil Scene
A sailor’s shore leave brings a joke about facial scratches as a friend teases him about learning to eat with a fork. A Philadelphian who swallowed a collar button endures three unsuccessful operations seeking the object, risking a replacement if the trouble continues.
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Sailor
Advantage of slender height noted in routine verses
A reflective verse extols slender tall stature pairing long reach with practical benefits. The speaker imagines advantages from boarding house meals to hanging items in a hall, framing height as useful for daily tasks.
Moral: Avoil Proverbs A Western Store Adverts
A western store runs a brief ad listing fruit items including apples and oranges. The fragment lacks context or dates but signals a simple sales notice for produce.
Baptists Map January World Mission Tour Land of Adventure
Northern Baptist families will hold a January 1928 mission tour dubbed the Land of Adventure. An imaginary airship last year and a forthcoming camel caravan will symbolize the voyage, with 7,000 churches and 1.5 million members in 35 states plus Latin America Asia Africa and Europe participating.
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Baptists
Union
Latin America
Asia
Africa
Europe
Extract from a quirky early shopping blurb
A promotional note touts imported nuts and fruit cake with urging to shop early. A playful line mocks the honorary B A as Bachelor of Applesauce, suggesting a tongue in cheek awards moment for prominent shoppers.
Oddly Frugal Mornings and Car Corsages
A humorous exchange about glass cases with axes in railroad cars and a coffee order reveals lighthearted quirks. A patron jokes about window openings while a waiter trims a cream mismatch. The remark on rich mornings captures a sly carefree sentiment about leisure.
Gun Gospel Stars Ken Maynard at Fox Theatre Tonight
Ken Maynard, famed for circus stunt work with Ringling Brothers and 101 Ranch, headlines Gun Gospel at the Fox Theatre tonight and Saturday. The Western tale follows outlaw decline and new law, with Maynard showcasing trick riding and roping.
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Big Tops
Ken Maynard
Fox Theatre
Maynard
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey
The
101 Ranch
Noah Young
Bob Flemming
Romaine Fielding
J. P. McGowan
Slim Whitaker
Jerry Madden
Tarzan
Tuberculosis Deaths Drop to Ten‑Year Low in Sweden
Stockholm reports 1926 TB fatalities at 8,022 the lowest in a decade, compared with 8,612 in 1925 and 3,097 in 1922. From 1917 to 1926 total deaths reached 94,051, with a falling average from 10,501 per year (1917–1920) to 8,805 (1921–1925). The bulk of deaths occurred in the countryside rather than cities.
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Sweden
Stockholm
City railways to be replaced by new subways in NYC
In New York City the old elevated railways will be phased out in a few years as new subways take over their functions. The Sixth Avenue line is expected to be the first removed due to its greater threat to traffic and pedestrians.
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New York City
Sixth Avenue
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